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When your policies kill people...
This literally applies to any US president, or rather any political leader anywhere. Stop trying to justify violence.
Literally what you're doing, except you're justifying violence against millions, while we're justifying violence against the handful that perpetrate that violence against millions.
We are not the same., and you definitely don't have any moral high ground.
Wtf are you even talking about? There's a very big difference from bad policies and what this is. For example, Obama involved the US in the Saudi Arabia led coalition against the Houthis in Yemen, and this one policy led to the deaths of tens of thousands. Does that justify somebody trying to assassinate Obama? No, of course not. Bush started two wars, does that justify somebody trying assassinate him? No, it doesn't. Biden, is helping Ukraine defend itself from Russia which has also led tens of thousands to die, does that justify assassinating him? Again, no.
If you want to bring any of them to face justice, that's fine, but it has to be been done through our justice system where they go through trial... like we did with Trump. We can't start a precedent inside the country that legitimatizes and normalizes political violence to achieve political violence at the cost of our democracy. That is the reason why everybody was in uproar over Trump's Jan 6th insurrection. The democratic process has to be maintained, the peaceful transfer of power has to be preserved, and civil society has to be protected. We can't have self righteous assholes going around on terrorism crusades killing anybody they don't like. This is common sense, it's insane that I have to even defend such a position.